LOS ANGELES (AP) The Los Angeles Clippers paid their way into the NBA draft Thursday night to pick up South Carolina guard Sindarius Thornwell.
The 48th-overall pick belonged to the Milwaukee Bucks before the Clippers acquired it for cash.
Thornwell averaged 21.4 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.1 steals with the Gamecocks last season in helping his team to the Final Four.
”In regards to Sindarius what we identified early on is we wanted to add tough, competitive, hard-playing, high basketball IQ players to complement our team,” Clippers Executive Vice President Lawrence Frank said. ”Sindarius has shown the ability to play multiple positions, and if you look at what he did as leader of the South Carolina team, take them to the Final Four, their program had never achieved success like he did.